Houerdard writes," i got this wretched chang-kai-chek 'flu - held things up." He signs this letter "much luv - & affectionate coughs." The address to Hansjorg is typed with red dashes as is the name silvester.The basis for this letter is to ask Hansjorg Mayer to send off Houedard works to Dana Atchley at the University of Victoria in Canada and he provides letterpress works, photographs, typings and credits. These works were subsequently published in Atchley's Notebook 1 (1970), a work also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Houedard mentions his time-consuming writing and speaking projects including his work on the bible (Jerusalem Bible). He writes that Jonathan Williams is going to do the concrete anthology and "Kitaj did silk screens for the mahler poems - marlborough publishing 60 copies at jon says 300 pounds each - HE gets a free copy." This "messy" letter is signed pierre formed with typed commas and semi-colons. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Houedard mentions Jonathan Williams, Ronald Johnson, John and Astrid Furnival and Ken Cox. Houedard writes at the page bottom, "just did poem for polluted lake: dedicated to ernst jandl: vienna circle: WA wa wa - WA wa wa - LLLLL - tz tz" The Polluted Lake Series was edited and published by d.a. levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Can be read as "Ant on Bruckner." The print depicts a portrait of Anton Bruckner, the composer, with a large ant on the top of his head. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This depicts a black and white portrait of Eric Satie with rainbow colored eye glasses? or eye brows? The citation "Arc-En-Oeuil en Arcueil" is printed at the bottom of the print. In another copy, the same citation is on a blue rectangle.Arcueil is the name of the town south of Paris where Satiespent some time. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This depicts a black and white portrait of Eric Satie with rainbow colored eye glasses? or eye brows? The citation "Arc-En-Oeuil en Arcueil" is printed on a blue rectangle at the bottom of the print. In another copy, the same citation is printed without the blue rectangle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Photograph depicts Joel Oppenheimer in baseball regalia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This depicts the poet Basil Bunting standing outside his house with the caption, "all sounds fall still, fellside bleat, hide-and-seek peewit." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This depicts a sepia toned photograph of the poet Charles Olsen writing at his desk with the caption, "I, Maximus, address you islands of men and girls." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This depicts a colored portrait of the British poet Ronald Firbank standing on a large rock, with the caption, "Firbank in Fox's Furs on Firbank Fell." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem can be read as So Long or Song. The title is in Latin meaning Rest in Peace. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This depicts a man and woman who cannot be identified with the caption, "Louden lots Largamente Slargando." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This depicts a portrait of M. Point, a French architect who built "La Pyramide" in Paris, with a quote by him in the caption, "success is the sum of a lot of small things correctly done." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The print depicts a black and white portrait of Edward Lear, the British poet-artist, surrounded by colored animals he wrote about in his verse. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Redon's name is broken up to form a poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.